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Local governments across Alaska routinely hire police officers with criminal records, sometimes including felony and domestic violence convictions, the Anchorage Daily News reports. In some cases, the officers are employed in violation of state hiring requirements and continue law enforcement careers even while on criminal...

Journalists last week heard Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein review the government’s policies on obtaining information from reporters. Rosenstein said the guidelines created under President Obama remained in effect: barring certain circumstances, like an imminent threat to national security, reporters would be told in advance...

The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) has added its weight to calls to ban guns for individuals “legally prohibited from owning them.”
In an “action plan” on gun violence released Thursday, the nation’s top think tank on policing also called for strengthening the federal Background Check...

Legal teams today confront evolving challenges in discovery. Companies, organizations, and even individuals generate massive amounts of data and records, any one of which could hold the crucial evidence to bring a case together.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. If you don’t collect and organize enough...

Law enforcement agencies have deployed vast surveillance camera networks to guard against terrorism and combat street crime. In Newark, the police have taken an extraordinary step that few, if any, other departments have pursued: They have opened up feeds from dozens of closed-circuit cameras to...

At noon on Tuesday, thousands of teenage bodies will blanket the U.S. Capitol lawn. For 12 minutes, they will remain motionless in honor of Americans who have been killed or wounded in mass shootings since the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando, exactly two years before,...